Category Archives: Physiology, Bones

Liquid Poison: Milk, Pop, Juice and Sports Drinks

Ok so we’ve looked at what our kids our chewing on, but what about the liquids they are ingesting. Let’s start with the traditional milk. Let’s do a quick refresher and bashing of grocery store milk and miraculousness of raw milk. … Continue reading

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Mandatory Magnesium

Who knew that a little snooping into vitamins and minerals would bring about such an in-depth look at different versions of these nutrients. Today we’ll investigate a heavy-hitter in the realm of minerals, magnesium. Keep in mind even though we … Continue reading

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Activator X (or K2)

We’ve been looking at vitamins, which brings us to Activator X. When Weston A. Price was traveling the world, looking at indigenious peoples, he discovered the benefits of vitamin A and D, plus another factor, Activator X, that seemed to … Continue reading

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Vitamins and Minerals: what you need to know

I apologize now for the length of today’s special post on vitamins and minerals, but we have a lot to cover and I’m keeping it pretty basic. Later we’ll look at whether to supplement or not, but vitamins are a … Continue reading

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Beta-carotene: provitamin A

Beta-carotene is more than its association with orange and yellow pigmented foods, this carotenoids, has some serious vitamin A potential. This week we have looked at vitamin A and antioxidants. Although vitamin A is usually found in animal origin (meat … Continue reading

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Hormonal Eating for Sustained Fat Loss

Losing weight is easy, right? Just eat fewer calories. This may work, but is the weight going to stay off and is the weight you’re losing only fat, but muscle as well? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could lose … Continue reading

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Put down the Bread: Why not to eat grains

We’ve discussed several times that controlling insulin is the key to longevity and health. The way to do this is to get rid of the problem children. You know grains, starches and sugars that lace all the processed foods that … Continue reading

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Why to shed your shoes

Blogs by Brittany: Vacations are a time of rest and relaxation, so naturally a good book is a must. Today’s post was brought about because of the book that I cuddled up to the fire with in the ColoradoMountains. Granted … Continue reading

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Fat-Soluble Vitamins

With all this discussion on fat the past few weeks, I’ve mentioned fat-soluble vitamins several times, so I figured today we would take the time to take a further look at these. One of the most important aspects of being … Continue reading

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Butter? The beauty of grass-fed

Here in America we have a tendency to put the things that are best for us on blast and drag their names through the mud so that we’re afraid to eat them, but replace them with processed unreal food that … Continue reading

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